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Loko language

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Pronunciation
  
/læn.dɔɣɔ/

Native speakers
  
140,000 (2006)

Native to
  
Dialects
  
LandogoLogo

Language family
  
Niger–CongoMandeWestern MandeSouthwesternLoko

Writing system
  
African reference alphabet

Loko, or Landogo, is a Southwestern Mande language spoken by the Loko people, who primarily live in Northern Sierra Leone. There are two main varieties, Landogo and Logo, but they are mutually intelligible. Ethnic Loko outnumber native Loko speakers due to the linguistic encroachment of Temne and Krio and urbanization to Freetown, where Loko is internally and externally seen as a low-prestige language.

References

Loko language Wikipedia


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